Rachel Whalen wrote: Hi Chris, I have had clinical depression from a very young age and over the years have found a medication that lets me live a normal life. I work in an interesting field (forensics) and have a loving home and family life. My doctor who issues me with my medication offered, quite [...]
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by Chris Holmes ** Update 16/07.10: There is a link in the third comment at the end of this article to the website of Action on Smoking and Health (A.S.H.) which refers to a study on cravings that confirms exactly what I’m talking about here. God knows I never expected ASH to confirm or agree [...]
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Lennox Johnston was largely responsible for tobacco smoking being wrongly classed as a drug addiction when it is, in fact, a complex compulsive habit. At first, the medical profession were sure he was wrong. They should have stuck to that position, because he WAS wrong. See Chris Holmes’ book ‘Nicotine: The Drug That Never Was’ for the full story.
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“In a multicenter, randomized, double-blind phase II clinical trial, 638 men and women aged 18-65 who smoked an average of 10 cigarettes per day during the previous year, without a period of abstinence of more than 3 months, where put on placebo, bupropion (another drug used as a smoking cessation aid, brand name Zyban®), or [...]
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by Chris Holmes Now Meet Doug Wilson What have I been saying all this time? That tobacco smoking has been MISTAKEN for an addiction but is really just a compulsive habit. How did I discover this? By finding that a single hypnotherapy session can shut it down easily, cravings and all, with no weight gain [...]
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By Chris Holmes The Non-Smoker Tries a Cigarette Remember your first cigarette? Or to be more precise, do you remember the first time you inhaled tobacco smoke properly and experienced the effect on the way you felt, physically and mentally? If there was no alcohol in your system already at the time – or any [...]
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by hypnotherapist Chris Holmes (Sing!): “What Shall We Do With The Poison Factory…?” In the original post entitled “New Poison For Old!” I pointed to the amusing phenomenon over recent years of the drug companies who have already spent a lot of money developing the facilities for producing nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, micro-tabs, nasal sprays [...]
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No smoker started smoking for the effects of nicotine, and no smoker can tell me what nicotine DOES! So they are not smoking for the effects of nicotine, because they don’t even know what those effects ARE. It is a habit, not “drug use”.
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…when I suggested that the Department of Health KNEW THEY WERE LYING when they made all those claims for the supposed ‘effectiveness’ of nicotine replacement poisoning: http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/03/17/patrick-basham-the-doh-is-wrong-about-cessation/ Now: the plot thickens, as we hear rumours that the ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE is very likely to be BANNED in the U.K. towards the end of June – the [...]
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by hypnotherapist Chris Holmes The Addiction Myth Yes, it is the case that many smokers find it very difficult to give up smoking. Cravings can drive you up the wall. Trying to ignore them can make you very irritable or reduce you to tears. Smokers can sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to obtain tobacco. All [...]
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